Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ten Mile Hill Beds Formation, Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. E. Sanders. 2002. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. American Philosophical Society 1-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79760: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth originally entered as "Megalonyx jeffersoni"
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Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
"Hydrochoerus holmesi" = Neochoerus aesopi
"Hydrochoerus holmesi" = Neochoerus aesopi Leidy 1853 caviomorph | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison |